For those who have posted info against PETA - do not donate etc. I contacted them for a response I will attempt to copy the information sent to me. Please note at the end of the message there is a PS regarding a group attempting to discredit them - as I suspected. I agree with the stance.Dear Ms. Kent, Thank you for your e-mail and for your support of PETA. We appreciate the opportunity to address your concerns. PETA is on the front lines in the battle to help unwanted dogs and cats. Our caseworkers work tirelessly to rescue homeless animals from environmental dangers and situations of cruelty and neglect (PETA.org/about/learn-about-peta/community-animal-project.aspx). Our staff members crawl through sewers, poke around junkyards, climb trees, and dodge traffic in order to reach animals in danger. During floods and storms, we are out saving animals’ lives at all hours. PETA does not run a traditional adoption facility; we are a shelter of last resort. While a few of the animals we take in are lost companion animals whom we eventually reunite with their grateful guardians and others are taken to local open-admission agencies where they will have a chance to be adopted, the vast majority of the animals we accept are taken in specifically for euthanasia. Because most people take healthy, adoptable animals directly to local animal shelters, the majority of animals who come to PETA are extremely sick or seriously injured. For these animals, euthanasia is, without a doubt, the most humane option. PETA provides free euthanasia services for people who have very sick, critically injured, or geriatric companions but can’t afford to take them to a veterinarian. Some well-intentioned people might argue that the solution to the overflow of unwanted animals is to open sanctuaries. But the sad reality is that the math just doesn’t add up. There is not enough money available to us or to anyone to build enough sanctuaries or organize enough animal-adoption programs to keep up with the number of unwanted animals—particularly those animals deemed “undesirable” because of their infirmities, age, or behavior. Abandoning domesticated animals to fend for themselves would be irresponsible, of course, but keeping them in cages or pens for a lifetime is no more humane for homeless dogs and cats than it is for animals in laboratories or circuses. To learn more about “no-kill” shelters, please see PETA.org/features/turned-away-a-closer-look-at-no-kill.aspx, PETA.org/about/why-peta/no-kill-shelters.aspx and features.PETA.org/AllCreaturesGreatAndSmall/. PETA is not alone in this work: Millions of homeless animals are euthanized in animal shelters and veterinary offices across America because of simple math: too many animals, not enough suitable homes. As many as 8 million animals flood U.S. animal shelters annually, and half of them must be euthanized. Even if those 8 million animals could be placed with loving families, there would be 8 million more the next year and the year after that. Preventing the source of the problem—the birth of unwanted animals—is where money and efforts need to go. PETA runs three mobile spay-and-neuter clinics in Virginia and North Carolina at least six days a week. The clinics conduct much of their work in disadvantaged neighborhoods, where we offer no-cost to low-cost sterilization surgeries and other services such as flea and tick treatments, vaccinations, and deworming. We sterilize thousands of dogs and cats each year, including feral animals. Since starting our first mobile clinic in 2001, we have sterilized nearly 94,000 animals, including more than 9,200 in the 2012 fiscal year alone. In regards to pit bulls—PETA does not believe that every pit bull should be euthanized; we do, however, staunchly advocate a ban on the breeding of pit bulls (in fact, breeding any dogs should be illegal because of the tragic overpopulation crisis). We hope that our support of such laws will stop people from bringing more pits into the world to be fought, mistreated, and exploited. We do often help neglected and abused pit bulls by providing veterinary care, free spay and neuter surgeries, doghouses, straw bedding, and running lines for animals who are kept on chains. We report any abuse that we witness to authorities. We must consider that people who have good intentions rarely come to a shelter to adopt pit bulls; almost without exception, those who want pit bulls are attracted to the “macho” image of the breed as a living weapon and seek to play up this image by putting the animals in heavy chains, taunting them into aggression, and leaving them outside in all weather extremes in order to “toughen” them. There is no denying that pit bulls are at a higher risk of suffering a horrible fate. For more thoughts on this issue, please go to PETA.org/b/thepetafiles/archive/2009/07/21/PETA-Position-on-Pit-Bulls.aspx. We hope you understand that it is heart-wrenching for those of us at PETA and at animal shelters across the country who care deeply for animals to have to hold animals in our arms and take their lives because there is nowhere for them to go. Those who truly seek to make a difference for animals understand that it is necessary to do the right thing—even when it’s unpleasant—rather than supporting false “solutions” simply because they make us feel less uncomfortable. PETA has always spoken openly about euthanasia on our website and in our publications, and—although we understand that it is upsetting to think about—euthanasia will continue to be necessary in this imperfect world until people take action though spaying and neutering to prevent dogs and cats from bringing new litters into the world. For more thoughts on PETA and euthanasia, please go to PETA.org/b/thepetafiles/archive/2009/03/30/why-we-euthanize.aspx and PETA.org/b/thepetafiles/archive/2009/05/14/why-must-we-euthanize-part-ii.aspx. We hope that this message has shed some light on our work. To read more about PETA’s lifesaving work, please visit features.PETA.org/petasaves/. To learn about what PETA is doing for companion animals and how you can help, please visit PETA.org/issues/companion-animals/default.aspx. Thanks again for writing and for your generous membership support. Sincerely, Lora Adomeit Membership Correspondent [email protected] P.S. A lot of the misleading and outright false rumors that are spread concerning our efforts are the work of the deceitfully named Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF), a front group for Philip Morris, Outback Steakhouse, KFC, cattle ranchers, and other animal exploiters who kill millions of animals every year—not out of compassion but out of greed. To learn more about CCF—whose website USA Today said should be renamed “FatforProfit”—please see the following websites: · ConsumerDeception · citizensforethics.org/legal-filings/entry/irs-complaint-against-center-for-consumer-freedom-tax-exempt · prospect.org/cs/articles?articleId=8984 · nytimes/2010/06/18/us/politics/18berman.html?adxnnl=1&pagewanted=all&adxnnlx=1310490040-rGzoElznpxXMPZtmzw6L2g · bermanexposed.org/facts#consumerfreedom
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